in other words, my thought is this, is it wonderfully okay to raise an election -- to lose an election if you do it based on principle and sticking to the core values that you promised your voters that you would do? >> host: in "breach of trust: how washington turns outsiders into insiders," you write: >> host: do you want to address any of those first three? >> guest: well, let's address the third one first. if you have a transportation bill and they want your vote on the transportation bill, what they'll do is call you up and say where do you want to spend this 40 or 60 or $80 million? so here you as a member of congress can go and politically benefit either your weak areas by saying look at this road i built for your town or this new bridge i put over the water for you all. in other words, i can use the power of the purse to enhance my own standing personally. and when that was offered to me, first of all, i tape recorded it and put it out -- >> host: and that was the tone phone call from the transportation committee, bud schuster was the chair at the time. >> guest: yeah. and i put